Decimus Brutus

Family: conspirators · Role: chief conspirator · First appears: Julius Caesar 80

Life events

• The conspirators united their counsels instead of continuing to plot separately.(Julius Caesar 80)
  • With: Caius Cassius Marcus Brutus
  • “Instead, therefore, of caballing any longer separately, in small parties, they now united their counsels;”
• The conspirators approved the senate-house and the ides of March for their attack on Julius Caesar.(Julius Caesar 80 · 📍 senate-house built by Pompey)
  • With: Julius Caesar Caius Cassius Marcus Brutus
  • “About sixty persons were engaged in the conspiracy against him, of whom Caius Cassius, and Marcus and Decimus Brutus were the chief. It was at first debated amongst them, whether they should attack him in the Campus Martius when he was taking the votes of the tribes, and some of them should throw him off the bridge, whilst others should be ready to stab him upon his fall; or else in the Via Sacra, or at the entrance of the theatre. But after public notice had been given by proclamation for the senate to assemble upon the ides of March [15th March], in the senate-house built by Pompey, they approved both of the time and place, as most fitting for their purpose.”
• Decimus Brutus persuaded Caesar to leave home and attend the assembled senate.(Julius Caesar 81)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “but Decimus Brutus advising him not to disappoint the senators, who were numerously assembled, and waited his coming, he was prevailed upon to go, and accordingly set forward about the fifth hour.”
• Julius Caesar named Decimus Brutus among his heirs of the second order.(Julius Caesar 83)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “as well as Decimus Brutus amongst his heirs of the second order.”

Julius Caesar 80

• enemies with Julius Caesar “About sixty persons were engaged in the conspiracy against him, of whom Caius Cassius, and Marcus and Decimus Brutus were the chief.”

Julius Caesar 81

• with Julius Caesar (interaction) “but Decimus Brutus advising him not to disappoint the senators, who were numerously assembled, and waited his coming, he was prevailed upon to go”

Julius Caesar 83

• with Julius Caesar (heir of the second order) “as well as Decimus Brutus amongst his heirs of the second order.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.